The REAL Reason CONS have left or rarely post

[mizpeh]

Originally Posted by Michael Phelps

That's awesome, Miz!

Then this forum actually worked in reverse for you........as one preacher said, "Sunlight melts butter, but hardens clay - it just depends on what's inside".

Maybe the same forum that weakens some will strengthen others, just depends on what we have inside.

And, I didn't take offense to your comment, it actually made me smile, because when I have questioned things over the years, the first question I'm asked is "WHO HAVE YOU BEEN TALKING TO? STAY AWAY FROM THEM!"

I came within a whisper of considering Trinitarianism. So close that I prayed, fasted, and heard directly from God.

I've had a voice speak Acts 2:38 forcefully into my mind one morning while lying in bed waking up and believe it or not, it wasn't from God! LOL

I think it depends on how much one is willing to search the scriptures. I've considered the one stepper position, ( it's much more inclusive) but I don't believe it harmonizes the whole counsel of God that we find in the Bible and it doesn't fit with my personal experiences with God.

I didn't come to God in a church environment. Someone witnessed to me the first or second day of my arrival in England. I started reading the gospels and the words of Christ rung true with me, I believed Him and repented.
Faith in Christ and Repentance DRASTICALLY changed my life. I no longer wanted to do the sinful things I once did. I devoured the Bible in a few months.
I literally felt clean on the inside after I was baptized in Jesus name.
I prayed God would use my hands as His own when I went to anoint my "flat's" walls from the spirits that were lingering there, as I touched the wall, I spoke in tongues through absolutely no effort of my own. It was a wonderful surprise!

Does the change of mind that is repentance mean a believer has been filled with the Holy Spirit? Nope! It is what it is...a radical change of heart.

Are sins washed away in baptism? Well, I sure felt clean on the inside AFTER I was baptized!

Is tongues the evidence of God's Spirit coming to dwell within a believer? It was the evidence that I was given!